Dorothy Clarke Wilson (May 9, 1904 – March 26, 2003) was an American writer, perhaps best known for her novel Prince of Egypt (1949), which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film, The Ten Commandments (1956).

She attended Cony High School in Augusta, graduating at seventeen as valedictorian of her class.

Clarke was not a fan of the movie and used the term 'flimflammery' to describe the scene in which Moses parted the Red Sea.

Wilson is also well known for her biographies about women such as Dorothea Dix and Elizabeth Blackwell as well as the presidential wives Dolley Madison and Martha Washington.

The Wilson Center at the University of Maine was named in Dorothy and Elwin's honor.